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...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
...“I don’t think any of us can be disappointed [with the counteroffensive so far],” UK defence secretary Ben Wallace said on Tuesday. “We’re not fixing bayonets and running towards the guns....
...He has been mentioned in US media as a potential candidate to be Treasury secretary if Trump wins in November’s general election....
...planet . . . it’s so, almost extraterrestrial, to think about,” former US secretary of state John Kerry, a Davos regular, told the conference last year....
...The other warships protecting the carrier will be US, Danish and Spanish. A recent report by the House of Commons defence select committee, titled Ready for War?...
...jemima.kelly@ft.com...
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, had blamed the communications breakdown in part on Austin’s chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, who was out for much of last week with the flu....
...President John F Kennedy asked his National Security Council in January 1963, “Why should we have in Europe supplies adequate to fight for ninety days when the European forces around our troops have only...
...The last time US and UK elections took place within a few weeks of each other was in 1964, at the height of the cold war and after the assassination of John F Kennedy....
...Porsche FY, TP ICAP FY Wednesday FT Climate Capital Live event Russia: February CPI inflation rate data UK: January GDP estimate Results: Adidas FY, Balfour Beatty FY, Dollar Tree Q4, Eni FY, Eon FY, F&...
...Starting with his vice-president, we can add his chief of staff, John Kelly, both his defence secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, his national security adviser, John Bolton, his first secretary of state...
...John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser and the former US ambassador to the UN under George W Bush, has publicly criticised him, as have Mark Esper, his former defence secretary, and John Kelly...
...It is now clear the US is following Europe’s example, with Treasury secretary Janet Yellen warning China not to “flood the world with cheap clean energy exports”, as the FT reporting puts it....
...Mellon, 81, is the grandson of Andrew Mellon, the former US Treasury secretary and senior banker, and a former executive in the transportation and infrastructure sector....
...Kennedy, who is the son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy and nephew of the former president John F Kennedy, is known for his scepticism towards vaccines and his questioning of the US’s support for Ukraine...
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...in point is F-16 fighter jets, which Ukraine has long sought to help with its stuttering counteroffensive, but on which the US has only now allowed Ukrainian pilots to train....
...Two American F-16s carried out the strikes on Friday morning. “We do not seek to widen the conflict nor escalate it,” said a senior US defence official....
...That is partly down to his age — at 80, he is some 34 years older than John F Kennedy was when the only other Catholic US president visited Ireland in 1963 — and is partly just the nature of diasporas, as...
...Could John F Kennedy have engineered a peaceful solution to the Cuban missile crisis, with Fox News on in the background 24 hours a day?...
...Berlin marks the 60th anniversary of US president John F Kennedy’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech. A decision is expected on how to raise the minimum wage....
...I started my Saturday as usual with the FTWeekend, and particularly enjoyed Simon Kuper’s essay on the making of a modern oligarch, Jemima Kelly’s tour of the US’s new “anti-woke” universities, and Martin...
...F-16....
...And even in this day and age, the US Treasury secretary doing a bit of gleeful insider trading is a tad implausible....
...“It isn’t just police officers who have been in touch with us overnight....
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